Category: Michael Baron
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The best pitcher in baseball right now is Jacob deGrom…
Lost in Friday night’s eighth inning meltdown was another brilliant effort on the part of Jacob deGrom, who unquestionably deserved his eighth win of the year. Instead, deGrom ultimately allowed two earned runs in 7 1/3 innings on Friday night, seeing his ERA rise to 2.34 for the year while falling to 7-5 in 14 starts…
Michael Baron
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The Mets attempt at explaining the eighth inning on Friday
As has been the case on too many occasions in 2015, the New York Mets gave away runs and a game on Friday night as the Braves came from behind to defeat the Mets 2-1 in the eighth inning. For the third time in a week, the Mets lost a game while leading after seven innings –…
Michael Baron
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Exclusive: Michael Conforto continues to mash, unconcerned about a promotion
There isn’t any stopping Michael Conforto right now. The two-time Florida State League Player of the Week and fourth-best prospect in the Mets system has lived up to all of the pomp and circumstance that came with him when the Mets made him the tenth overall selection in the 2014 first-year player draft last June, as…
Michael Baron
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Poor defense plagued Bartolo Colon, but he did not pick his team up
It was one of those starts for Bartolo Colon that just get tossed in the trash can. Unfortunately, it’s happened quite frequently over the first half of the season. But maybe it didn’t have to be. Against an opponent in a ballpark he needed to have command of his two-seamer on the corners, Colon did not,…
Michael Baron
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Mets lacked energy in Toronto, and Terry Collins knows it
On Wednesday morning, the Mets arrived at their hotels in Toronto at around 3:30 AM after defeating the Blue Jays 3-2 just about six hours earlier in New York. The sleepy Mets showed up to Rogers Centre in the early part of the afternoon, seemingly ready to play against a Toronto offense they had successfully…
Michael Baron
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